Re: CRLF, LF ... CR ?

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Drew Northup [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 17:09 +0200, Jens Bauer wrote:

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Hi everyone.

I'm quite fond of git, and have used it for a while.
Recently, I've started making printed circuit boards (PCBs) using an application called OsmondPCB (for Mac), and I'd like to use git to track changes on these.
This application was originally written for the old Mac OS (Mac OS 6 to Mac OS 9.2).
The old Mac OS does not use LF, nor CRLF for line endings, but only CR.

I've read that git supports two different line endings; either CRLF or LF, but it does not support CR.
Would it make sense to add support for CR (if so, I hereby request it as a new feature) ?

Jens,
Even if Git can't do CRLF/LF translation on a file it will still store
and track the content of it it just fine. In fact you probably want
translation completely disabled in this case.

(Given that you seem to be working on a Mac I suspect that "disabled" is
likely the default setting for that configuration item.)

This might be less than ideal, because diffing and merging will break.

Perhaps clean/smudge filters can be used instead? That way you can
have CR on disk and LF in the repo.